Joint Seat Allocation Authority, commonly known as JoSAA held its very first meeting on 2nd may 2015 where it was decided that Joint seat allocation for all the academic courses will be done on Joint basis by 88 institutes of year right from the academic year 2015-16 by JoSAA itself. In this meeting, the memorandum was signed between various authorities who agreed that all the institutions will follow tha same platform for admissions.

Joint Seat Allocation Sequence

All contenders to academic program at various IITs

All contenders to academic programs at IIITs

All contenders to academic programs at ISM Dhanbad

All state contenders to academic programs at BITM and various NITS

For the purpose of Joint second round seat allocation, qualified candidates are partitioned into different categories based on (birth) categories, nationality and presence or absence of disability. In addition to this, candidatesare also assigned a state code of eligibility, which means the code of the state from where the candidate has passed Class 12 by virtue of which the candidate becomes eligible to appear in JEE Main 2018.

JoSAA 2018 2nd round seat allotment

Also, the total intake for an academic program is divided into different seat categories. The number of seats available for JoSAA 2nd round seat allotment in different categories or quotas will be announced in the online portal. Then the various types of rank lists depending upon different categories of candidates are prepared.

Multiple Student – Same Rank Rule

Suppose that, under a particular seat category for an academic program,

(i) There are m > 0 seats left to be filled and

(ii) There are n (m < n) candidates with the same category-wise rank

Seeking admission to this academic program, then all then candidates will be offered admission; in this case, there will be (n − m) seats. Using these formulae, the final allotment is done by the administration of the examination. These will be a notifiable factory of JoSAA 2nd round seat allotment.

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Sir, Even after 6th round in floating option, I couldn’t able to get a seat in the institute which I wanted though my ranking is very close to the closing rank announced. If there is a spot counselling, I will get a chance to get into some NIT.

may i have a chance to get a seat in NIT trichy or IIIT srirangam? i got 107090 rank in air rank… and i got 32058 rank in obc category… may i have chance to enter or not with my rank position?? rply soon sir… pls